arn...@skeeve.com wrote:
I'm sure that Paul and Jim would welcome patches.
I wrote a patch that prefers -F when the input looks like a troublesome case. It
merely uses heuristics though, nothing scientific like what Bruno Haible suggested.
Before installing anything like that, I'd first like
Bruno Haible wrote:
> Finally, code this formula into the 'grep' program.
I'm sure that Paul and Jim would welcome patches.
Arnold
Trevor Cordes wrote:
> I've read in numerous places (O'Reilly books mostly) that grep or pcre
> is often/sometimes faster than fgrep, so I think it is (somewhat) common
> knowledge and I wouldn't worry too much about that perception.
It is wrong to put the burden of the algorithm choice on the use
On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 05:28:56 -0600
Trevor Cordes wrote:
> On my box the above runs for >2m (never completes before I ^C) on the
> version **AFTER** the commits (v2.22). On the test build just *BEFORE*
> the commits (2.21.73-8058), it runs in <2s. So for me, I had a working
> command (-F -w -f)
On 2016-12-11 Norihiro Tanaka wrote:
> The changes switch used algorithm. They convert grep -w -F to grep
> -w.
Hi, thanks for helping! Sorry, yes, I forgot I was using
--fixed-strings (-F), so yes, my example should have used -F.
> Try following test case and before and after the changes, plea
